1. The Be G.R.E.A.T. Academy
Partnering with OCPS to
Explore and Implement
Education Ideas/Innovations
Proposed
March 2013
Mark Lee
http://begreatacademy.wordpress.com/
Blue Underlined Links are Active Private & Confidential

2. An Innovation is an Idea that Fulfills its Promise,
For Innovators Onwards
Diffusion of Innovation
But This Chart
Omits Ideas that Did Not Fulfill Their Promises
What if The Idea Fails to Fulfill its Promise?
How will OCPS know until after the Idea Has been Tried?

3. When An Idea Emerges, Its Promise is Yet to be Proven
Unknown Future
Startup
The Present The Future is Unknown
So It’s Unclear whether the Idea will Fulfill its Promise
Will OCPS be Willing to Risk
an Emergent Idea with an Unknown Future?

4. Only Experiments can Determine Whether an Idea
Misallocates Resources, or
Fulfills its Promise as an Innovation
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Misallocated
+
Successful
Resources Innovation
How Can OCPS Safely
Where Where
Explore an Emergent Idea?
Value is Value is
Subtracted Added

5. Be G.R.E.A.T. Academy
Experiments with an Emergent Idea
While OCPS Observes
Private & Confidential

6. Running an Experiment on an Emergent Idea
Be GREAT Academy: Will It Work?
OCPS Innovation School: Will It Scale?
Be OCPS Other Tremendous Learning Opportunity
GREAT Innovation OCPS for OCPS
Academy School Schools Learn from a Partner
Will it Will it who has
Work? Scale? Tech-Savvier & Risk-Tolerant
Teachers

7. Be GREAT Academy Will Use Tech-Savvier New Teachers
2X
1.5X
2X
2.5X
3X
2.5X
2.4X
1.7X
1.5X
1.5X
2X
1.5X
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3X

8. Next Steps
Reach out to OCPS
Private & Confidential

9. Charter School that Can Meet
State Purposes of Innovative Learning Methods
Charter schools shall fulfill the following purposes:
1. Improve student learning and academic achievement.
2. Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on low-
performing students and reading.
3. Encourage the use of innovative learning methods.
4. Require the measurement of learning outcomes.
http://www.flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2012/1002.33